Well, today is the day.
All of our county libraries are closing this afternoon due to lack of funding.
Inconceivable.
Even more absurd is that there are people who HONESTLY FEEL that libraries are unnecessary--afterall, we have the internet...
I think many had hoped/believed it wouldn't come to this.
But it is here...today.
I feel as though I am losing a good friend.
I have two books that need to go back today...1984 and a great Shorthand reference book that Ive been practicing with...neither of which I would have preferred using the internet for.
and I wont even start on the value of storytime for my grandkids...
Sad Day Here
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The city had a "ralley" to raise the local taxes by 1/2 of a percent and what happened? It passed and then they (the powers that be) decided to use the money to help fund the police and fire departments!!!!
What an uproar that has caused! They are suppose to increase the total hours of the three libraries from 30 hours a week to 60 before summer. Now, that's not from 30 hours per branch to 60, but from 30 hours COMBINED to 60 hours COMBINED!
Makes me cry just thinking about how great my childhood was being able to walk down to the local branch just about any time I wanted to pick up some books or sit in a private corner absorbed by the story in my hands.
Hope you and your community find a way to get the libraries back open.
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We love our library so much. Sometimes I am amazed it is still around - so under-utilizied and under-funded, etc.
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I'm always after Hubster and my kids to vote for library funding when it comes up on the ballots! Just because THEY don't use it DIRECTLY as much doesn't mean that it isn't a great thing for our community!!
Speaking of which I just want to remind everyone here that most all libraries have a reference desk that you can phone into and get answers for all kinds of questions. Try it sometime!
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Coming fom this area, it is hard for me to imagine one that doesn't understand the importance of libraries. They will understand it in about ten years when test scores of the current crop of elementary schools are down because of the inability to study real information in a hands on and tactile way. Of course, then it will be too late.
April 8th, 2007 at 05:25 pm 1176049514
That is sad news...
April 8th, 2007 at 07:49 pm 1176058162
Believe me, there are lots of voices being raised at this unjustice---it's just, getting action taken now that the libraries are shut down is the problem...the librarians work this next week reshelving and closing out the books...then they are all unemployed...and our children are left without a reading outlet.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:22 am 1176074531
It is such a shame as I do exactly as you do...I peruse around in the stores, on B&N website, and Amazon, etc., and then order the interesting things to be delivered to my local branch. Then I buy if it's worth a couple of re-reads.
I would miss it horribly if it went away!!
I'm so sorry this is happening to your community and those poor librarians! UGH!!!
April 9th, 2007 at 11:12 pm 1176156772
Can't imagine a world without libraries!
It sounds positively inhuman.
The internet is awhole other resource for information. In my library, when there is a possible copy of an electronic book, the patron usually will want the print copy instead.
Nothing like being able to hold a book.
Nothing.
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